On July 10, CNN’s Oliver Darcy reported that Blake Neff, the top writer for Tucker Carlson’s prime-time Fox News show, had been anonymously posting racist, misogynistic, homophobic, and other offensive content on an online forum for five years. Neff used racist and homophobic slurs, referred to women in a derogatory manner, and pushed white supremacist content while writing for Carlson’s show. Neff resigned after CNN contacted him for comment.
As Darcy reported, in an interview with the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, Neff claimed anything Carlson read during his show was initially drafted by him. Darcy also found instances where there was “some overlap between the forum and the show,” as sometimes the “material Neff encountered on the forum found its way on to Carlson's show.”
During a 2018 appearance on Fox’s The Five to promote his book Ship of Fools, Carlson mentioned Neff by name, calling him a “wonderful writer.” Carlson also included Neff in the acknowledgments of the book.